Stag

By the time he moves from small-town Iowa to the rural Northwest, ex-sheriff Amos Fielding is a widower in his seventies, and he's seen too much of the dark side of the world, some of which you will have seen too, if you read Dane's pitch-black first novel, The Houseboat. Dane was always a chipper fellow when he hosted our monthly Dock Street Salon reading series, as he did before moving up to Bellingham, but, boy, the darkness that's sloshing around his imagination! Plenty of it fills this book, haunting Fielding's attempt at retirement with a serial killer at work and a local lawman strangely disinclined to do his job. It turns out western Washington is no country for old men either.